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Senate to speed up the passage of Gender and Equal Opportunity Bill

Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, has said the senate would quicken the passage of the Gender and Equal Opportunity Bill. He said this while receiving the Director of United Nations Development Programmes (UNDP) to Nigeria Samuel Bawlya.

“The gender bill mentioned is before the national assembly and we have made much progress on it. We should be able to come up with something tangible on it very soon”.

“I think the support that can be given at this point should be in terms of advocacy on the objective of the bill, so that it would make it more acceptable”.

Mr Bawlya extolled the Senate President for the establishment of the Sustainable Development Goals SDGs to ensure effective oversight functions of the SDGs implementation in the country. He expressed gratitude to the National Assembly for the collaboration which has always existed between it and the UNDP.

Mr Bawlya maintained that he shares core UNDP mandate with the senatorial districts in the country which include governance, peace building, sustainable development and inclusive growth among others.

The Gender and Equal Opportunity Bill seeks to incorporate and enforce certain provisions of the United Nations Convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women, the protocol to the African charter on human and people’s rights on the rights of women in Africa, national gender policy, and other matters.

The first draft of the Gender and Equal Opportunity Bill 2010 was sponsored by Christiana Anyanwu. Six years after, it was reintroduced by Senator Abiodun Olujimi and it scaled through the first reading.

It has also passed through the second reading in 2017 and is yet to pass through the third reading and approval by the President.

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